In 2018, 1st prize awarded competition project.
VOXEL is designed for FabFest18’ International Fabrication Competition and Public Festival, University of Westminster, London. Our team EcoFab won the first prize in QHT for detail solving, and the third prize in D’S Smith for material using.
This year’s concept was Digital City. In our digitally connected and overpopulated cities, spaces are being redefined under the impacts of highly integrated global networks. In this manner, the way people interact and experience their environments has also been altered by this challenge where people try to respond to it by generating alternative physical or digital spaces. Our specific focus of this year’s theme “Digital City” is placed on the advancements of technologies of information, interaction, and fabrication in the redefinition of space.
The pavilion is considered to communicate as a mediator between physical and digital space for the visitors. The form of the pavilion could be based on the binary system of the cellular automata discrete model that determines the replication and destruction of each unit within the given boundaries. Similar to how cities and neighborhoods within cities are formed in an organic way, the units will form a voxelated multidirectional structure that represents the transition from digits to voxels. The overall form of the pavilion is also considered to act as a quick response code from a specific visual directory node to provide an alternative city definition through digital means.
VOXEL is built out of is corrugated cardboard. It is 3.8mm thick and is composed of two layers 1.4+2.4mm. Both layers have EB flute pattern. Cardboard is faced with 200gsm white paper and 180gsm kraft paper.
The project has three stages: the first stage was concept and form-finding, which takes one month, and secondly, we start trying models. The Voxel is modeled by Rhinoceros and Grasshopper programs. Then CNC machines are used for physical model making. This model making stage takes two months. The last part is a fabrication, we sent our CNC files of the Voxel model to FabFest’s labs and had connections about cutting all files without problems.
In June we were ready to build up Voxel in our faculty building for exhibition our university and also first trying of 1:1 model. In July, the competition starts in London and it is ten days long competition. We had seven days for building up Voxel pavilion and the other three days were for the exhibition.
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